diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index 7f8d9a5b5..d06263955 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -134,9 +134,8 @@ the object referred by the ref does not cause an error.  It
 returns an empty string instead.
 
 As a special case for the date-type fields, you may specify a format for
-the date by adding one of `:default`, `:relative`, `:short`, `:local`,
-`:iso8601`, `:rfc2822` or `:raw` to the end of the fieldname; e.g.
-`%(taggerdate:relative)`.
+the date by adding `:` followed by date format name (see the
+values the `--date` option to linkgit::git-rev-list[1] takes).
 
 
 EXAMPLES